Doesn't matter my friend. Legally they have the same status. You can't have a law that only gets Democrats. It just doesn't work that way. The rules that the FEC is proposing will decimate conservative groups. The RNC doesn't care for precisely the reason you cite above - they don't control Right to Life and NRA and Club for Growth in the same way the MoveOn marches lock step with the official Democratic Party, so they couldn't give a damn if those groups are silenced, too. Besides, the RNC is totally controlled now by the White House, which doesn't really care what happens after November, 2004. So the RNC is all hyped about this and eager to sanction this infringement of our rights. But conservatives shouldn't be.